It’s Friday, but today I will not post an image for a prompt, but rather a link to a full website filled with wonderful images.
Doing some background research for my Aculeo & Amunet stories*, I found AncientVine.com – a huge repository of information, images and video abut life in the Ancient World.
Go check it out.
It will leave you speechless.
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* Yes, it’s again the old story of the swape/shadoof…
A fast one.
Very fast.
This blog has just reached 250 followers*.
So, this small post is just to say thank you to all of you, ladies and gentlemen, for reading my blog.
Cheers!
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* 251, at the moment of writing!
One of the most entertaining and refreshing aspects of working with a great editor is sometimes you spend a whole night discussing swingy thingies.
Which disproves the old legend that authors and editors are often at odds, and engage in fiery discussions.
We were somewhat at odds, but we had a good laugh.
Consider the following contraption
This thing appears in one of the stories that will be published in the forthcoming Aculeo & Amunet collection – The Hand of Isfet. Continue reading
Another excellent post from Chuck Wendig…
In a perfect world, I’d have 36-hours-days to spend writing.
It would be fun, and maybe I might even turn a profit out of it.
And yet, sometimes there are weird silly ideas that pop up and won’t lay down.
As I think I mentioned in the past, I started reading fantasy with the rationalized fantasy stories that Unknown Worlds magazine used to publish.
I still love the Tales from Gavagan’s Bar, by Lyon Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, and I sometimes I feel deep down I’ve got a De Camp-esque approach to fantasy – I need a good laugh, in my stories, because I take the genre seriously, sure, but just not that much. Continue reading
Excellent first entry in an ongoing series…
So far, Italy has missed out on the pulp renaissance and the New Pulp movement.
There are authors that are writing pulp fiction – not in the “over the top Tarantino extravaganza” sense, but as in classic, popular, character-driven literature.
What’s missing is a community and, if you will, a generic label for the writers and readers to adopt.
But something’s moving – and I’m happy to point out the birth of Dime Novel Italia, a G+ group that might become the seed for something larger to develop.
For starters, authors, readers and fans have a place in which to discuss their genre.
More, hopefully, will follow.
The community is aimed at Italian speakers and covers the Italian market of new pulp and assorted “cheap” fiction – but feel free to drop by and say hallo!
Karavansara 